Assasin's Creed 4 Legendary Ships Guide

In the game there is a total of 4 legendary ships which can be found at each corner of the map. They're level 75 and are hard to defeat. They won't spawn again after you sink them but you do get a large amount of Reales (20000 each) and once you defeat all ships, you'll unlock a special ability for your ship to speed up and increase ram strength, which is very useful against close by enemies and quick sinks.

Info you should know you before you start hunting Legendary Ships

• You won't be able to defeat legendary ships easily without upgrades, try to upgrade your ship as much as you can before going in battle. Elite shots, Elite mortar, Elite Ram are recommended. *For more how to find their upgrade plans, See: Buried Treasures Guide - AC4.
• Try to keep a distance from them, if you get to close they'll use their side cannons against you, which will result in loss of lots of hp. 
• Use every attack powers you have (front, side, back cannons and swivels) when in combat with these ships to lower their HP faster.
• Try to Brace (Dodge) everytime the legendary ship fires at you, so you lose less HP. 
• Legendary ship rams cost you a lot of HP, they'll most likely sink you in one hit so when you see them coming towards you, drop your fire barrels infront of them to avoid getting hit.
• You will need to take over the fort closest to each corner on map to reveal the legendary ships.

#1st Ship -El Impoluto

Reward: 20,000 Reales

Location: Upper left corner

How to defeat: Start the fight by firing mortars on to the ship..this ship will mostly like try to ram you so avoid getting rammed or you could lose a lot of hp, even it comes towards the Jackdaw, shoot fire barrels to divert it from ramming your ship.

Keep hitting it with mortar and broadside cannons until it sinks.

#2nd Ship - HMS Fearless and Royal Soverign

Reward: 10,000 Reales each ship.

Location: North-east corner.

How to defeat: When you sink one of the two ships, the remaining ship becomes more hostile and will sink you down quickly by ramming you and heavy shotting you, so it's because to lower both the ships hp and then finish them together. Use mortar shots when the two ships get together (which usually happens) to damage the two ships together and when the ship sails away from you, just keep hitting it and it'll slow down.

" If you want to gain fast money, you can sink one of the ships and die after collecting the Reales, you'll keep the money and you'll be able to do it again. This way you can earn a lot of money easily. "

#3rd Ship - HMS Prince

Reward: 20,000 Reales.

Location: South-west corner.
How to defeat: Even though you'll be fighting in fog, this is the most easiest ship to defeat since you'll just have to position the Jackdaw behind the ship and shoot it to reveal weakspots and then swivel, etc. 
Just keep hitting the ship's backside and you're good.

#4th Ship - La Dama Negra

Reward: 20,000 Reales.

Location: South-east corner.
How to defeat: Fighting this ship will be similar to fighting with the HMS Prince legendary ship, the only difference will be is that you won't know where it's mortar attacks will land so keep changing your ships direction or stop the ship when it fires mortars to avoid damage. The best way to defeat this ship and avoid mortars is to be close to the ship everytime, just don't let the ship turn it's broadside cannons to you or you could lose large amount of hp fast when it fires.


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